Luke the Evangelist

Luke the Evangelist (1 BC-March 84 AD) was one of the Four Evangelists of the early Christian Church. He wrote both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, as well as portions of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Biography
Luke was born in Antioch to a Greek-Jewish family, and he worked as a physician before becoming a disciple of Saint Paul and following him until his martyrdom. He accompanied Paul on his missionary travels and wrote both the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles, describing the Twelve Apostles' missionary journeys (especially Paul's). He was said to have been martyred in Thebes, Boeotia in 84 AD by being hanged from an olive tree, although some sources believe that he was not martyred.